Jess
@jessicamvp.bsky.social
I’m an all genre bibliophile, educator, and seeker of truths. I am a woman, a mother, and a family and nature lover.
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Jess
@jessicamvp.bsky.social
· Mar 1
Come on America! Where is our fighting spirit for democracy? Only united will we truly stand again. I stand with Ukraine.
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NO KINGS Seacoast · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
www.mobilize.us
October 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Greta has bigger balls than Trump and he can’t stand it!
October 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Greta has bigger balls than Trump and he can’t stand it!
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How do we know Trump didn’t order Kirk’s assassination as a distraction from Epstein — and a tactic to start the civil unrest he needs to declare Martial Law and delay the 2026 midterms?
September 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
How do we know Trump didn’t order Kirk’s assassination as a distraction from Epstein — and a tactic to start the civil unrest he needs to declare Martial Law and delay the 2026 midterms?
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There will be some people who find today's number very pleasing. Welcome to the start of another day, another thread, on Day 1234 of Ukraine fighting, quite literally, for its existence
Again as I type, a major city's being attacked by Russia
Let's once and for all #StopRussia
Again as I type, a major city's being attacked by Russia
Let's once and for all #StopRussia
July 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
There will be some people who find today's number very pleasing. Welcome to the start of another day, another thread, on Day 1234 of Ukraine fighting, quite literally, for its existence
Again as I type, a major city's being attacked by Russia
Let's once and for all #StopRussia
Again as I type, a major city's being attacked by Russia
Let's once and for all #StopRussia
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Trump and Noem fired the people who answer the emergency phone line.
It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.
It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Trump and Noem fired the people who answer the emergency phone line.
It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.
It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.
#booksky Taylor Jenkins Reid never disappoints, and her new release, Atmosphere, feels like a summer night gazing at the stars with your first love.
June 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#booksky Taylor Jenkins Reid never disappoints, and her new release, Atmosphere, feels like a summer night gazing at the stars with your first love.
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Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"
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For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
January 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
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Quit freaking out. Remember that in 10,000 B.C., when America had ZERO international trade, a family could afford a house like this on a single income.
April 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Quit freaking out. Remember that in 10,000 B.C., when America had ZERO international trade, a family could afford a house like this on a single income.
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OpenAI making ChatGPT+ free for college students before finals will have about the same impact on learning as Nestle giving away free baby formula to nursing mothers had on breastfeeding
ChatGPT Plus Is Now Free For College Students
OpenAI is giving U.S. and Canadian college students free access to ChatGPT Plus just in time for finals. Could this move could close digital gaps and boost AI literacy.
www.forbes.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
OpenAI making ChatGPT+ free for college students before finals will have about the same impact on learning as Nestle giving away free baby formula to nursing mothers had on breastfeeding
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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I spoke with nearly two dozen creatives and publishers in the tabletop industry today. It's bad. It's real bad.
Tabletop teams near panic as Trump tariffs could kill decades of growth
‘Devastating consequences’ on the way, says trade group
www.polygon.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I spoke with nearly two dozen creatives and publishers in the tabletop industry today. It's bad. It's real bad.
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4/ The US Treasury Department announced on April 2 that the United States lifted sanctions on Karina Rotenberg, the wife of Russian businessman and oligarch Boris Rotenberg.
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
4/ The US Treasury Department announced on April 2 that the United States lifted sanctions on Karina Rotenberg, the wife of Russian businessman and oligarch Boris Rotenberg.
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CURVE BALL: Conservative, usually pro-Trump legal group @NCLAlegal sues Trump over tariffs. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
CURVE BALL: Conservative, usually pro-Trump legal group @NCLAlegal sues Trump over tariffs. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
March 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
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I'm completely losing my mind www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number.
A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'm completely losing my mind www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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we have to find a way to win this because I refuse to accept a world in which the biggest assholes alive get everything they want
March 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
we have to find a way to win this because I refuse to accept a world in which the biggest assholes alive get everything they want
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Will even one powerful institution stick to their principles?
"Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies"
"Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies"
Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
www.wsj.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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bernie and AOC are fucking up our strategy of doing nothing
March 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
bernie and AOC are fucking up our strategy of doing nothing
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
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This is a really good read from a great line-up.
Five years on from the pandemic, how has Covid changed our world? | The panel
We asked a group of experts on politics, trade, literature, psychology, work and more: what has been the most surprising or shocking consequence of Covid-19 in your field?
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is a really good read from a great line-up.